Lighter desktop performance
Open a real chat client without dragging a heavy browser-shaped stack behind it. MIRQ is built for speed, focus, and everyday responsiveness.
Private beta | American-made | Desktop-first
Private chat, voice, and streaming without the bloat.
MIRQ.Chat gives serious communities a faster communication platform with role-based control, lighter desktop performance, and deployment options that fit the way you operate.
Run MIRQ as a managed service or on infrastructure you control. Build for gaming groups, civic teams, enterprises, and government programs that need clarity, ownership, and room to customize.
Windows, macOS, and Linux clients
Hosted MIRQ or self-hosted deployment
Client-side encrypted channels and DMs
Lua apps and client plugins
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What It Is
One platform for team coordination
Channels, voice, streaming, permissions, and administration in one communication layer.
Why It Wins
More control, less drag
Clear roles, calmer operations, and deployment options that generic platforms rarely offer.
How It Grows
Lua-powered workflows
Start with personal plugins, then move shared automation into guild apps.
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Start Fast
Download the client, join your first guild, and invite your people without waiting on seat licenses or a complex rollout.
Why MIRQ feels different on day one
MIRQ is built to make communication faster to run, easier to trust, and more adaptable than the generic platforms teams settle for.
Understandable roles and access
Keep conversations organized with permissions that help admins stay in control without burying members in noise.
Voice and streaming built in
Move from text to voice to live streaming without stitching together separate tools or accepting a degraded experience under load.
Deployment that matches your environment
Use managed hosting when you want speed, or self-host when policy, compliance, or control require your own infrastructure footprint.
Client-side encrypted channels and DMs
MIRQ supports end-to-end encrypted message content so clients encrypt and decrypt locally while the server stores ciphertext and key metadata.
Lua extensibility built into the product
Start with personal plugins, then move into shared guild apps when your team needs custom workflows the default platform never shipped.
Fast Adoption Path
From first install to active community in minutes
Step 1
Install the desktop client
Download MIRQ for Windows, macOS, or Linux and get a native desktop-first experience immediately.
Step 2
Stand up your space
Join an existing MIRQ environment, launch managed hosting, or deploy your own environment depending on how much control you need.
Step 3
Invite and customize
Bring in members, define roles, and layer in Lua-powered workflows as your guild or team grows.
Built for communities that cannot afford messy communication
MIRQ works best where people need fast coordination, clear structure, and tools that adapt to the mission instead of getting in the way.
Gaming Communities
Keep squads, raids, events, voice rooms, and streams organized without turning your guild into a cluttered maze.
Civic Organizations
Coordinate volunteers, neighborhoods, and response teams with permissions and channels that keep the signal clear.
Enterprise Teams
Give operations, support, leadership, and specialized groups a dependable shared command layer without per-seat complexity.
Government Programs
Support mission-focused coordination with U.S.-operated stewardship, flexible deployment, and more transparent ownership.
Client-Side Encryption
End-to-end encrypted message content when privacy matters
MIRQ supports client-side encryption for guild channels and DMs, with decryption performed locally on the client instead of on the server.
Server Visibility
The server stores encrypted payloads and key metadata, not plaintext message content.
Modern Keying
Clients generate local keypairs and use hybrid ML-KEM-768 plus X25519 wrapping for per-channel and per-DM encryption keys.
Group Access
Per-channel and per-DM CEKs support shared access, member grants, and future-message key rotation when teams need tighter control.
Operational Reality
Encryption is controlled per channel via feature flag and protects message content, while metadata such as timing, sender, and channel remains visible.
MIRQ balances strong client-side privacy with practical team usability. It is designed to reduce server-side exposure of stored message content without pretending metadata disappears.
Extend MIRQ with Lua
Use MIRQ as more than a chat client. Add personal shortcuts, shared apps, and team-specific workflows without waiting for a vendor roadmap.
Client-side
Best fit
What teams build
Official GitHub Repositories
Start with MIRQ-maintained examples, then adapt them into the workflows your community actually needs.
Client Plugins
MIRQ Client Lua Plugins
Reference examples for personal automations, shortcuts, and client-side tools that run locally.
github.com/MIRQ-Chat/client-lua-plugins
Guild Apps
MIRQ Guild App Examples
Reference examples for shared guild apps that standardize actions across members, teams, and moderators.
github.com/MIRQ-Chat/guild-apps
Why MIRQ feels lighter than the usual stack
Use the toggles to compare memory and startup behavior against Discord, Slack, and Teams across supported operating systems.
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Trust Layer
Built in the United States for customers who care where their platform comes from
MIRQ gives privacy-conscious, policy-conscious, and mission-driven organizations a clearer answer to the questions that usually get buried: who built it, who runs it, and how you can deploy it.
U.S. Development And Operations
Product work and platform operations are centered in the United States for customers who need accountability they can explain.
Straightforward Ownership
MIRQ is privately held and operated with a simpler ownership story than sprawling public-platform alternatives.
Hosted Or Self-Hosted
Choose the operational model that fits your security posture, rollout speed, and administrative requirements.
Why teams replace generic chat tools with MIRQ
The switch is not just about chat. It is about reducing friction, tightening control, and using a platform that can evolve with your environment.
Less tool sprawl
Channels, voice, streaming, admin workflows, and extensibility live in one environment instead of being split across bolt-ons.
Clearer stewardship
Decision-makers get a cleaner story around ownership, operations, and deployment, which matters when trust is part of the buying decision.
Built around your workflow
MIRQ can stay simple for everyday use or become deeply specialized with managed hosting, role models, and Lua-driven workflows.
Know who you are betting on
When communication becomes operationally important, platform ownership and accountability stop being background details.
| Platform | Parent & HQ | Ownership Structure | Foreign Interest | H1B Devs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MIRQ | KloudNex Services (United States) | Privately held in the U.S. with no foreign investors. | 0% | 0 |
| Discord | Discord Inc. (United States) | Privately held. Public reporting cites investments from Tencent and Sony. | ~10-15% | ~60-85 |
| Slack | Salesforce Inc. (United States) | Publicly traded with global institutional ownership. | ~25-35% | ~1k-2k |
| Teams | Microsoft Corp. (United States) | Publicly traded with globally diversified ownership. | ~25-35% | ~2k-4k |
Data based on publicly available filings (LCAs 2022-2025) and investor disclosures.
Estimates for H1B developers derived from job role ratios in similar tech organizations.
Get started with MIRQ
1. Install
Choose the MIRQ client for your operating system.
2. Join Or Launch
Connect to an existing MIRQ environment or launch hosting for your own community.
3. Invite And Organize
Set roles, create channels, and start building workflows that match your team.
Download directly from the official MIRQ client repository. If you need a managed rollout instead of a self-directed start, use MIRQ Hosting below.
MIRQ is in active beta. Releases may move quickly as early users help shape the product, but that same feedback loop is why the platform is improving fast.
Managed Rollout
MIRQ Hosting with MIRQ Commander
Launch a full MIRQ stack with server, gateway, clustering, voice, streaming, and operator-grade administration through MIRQ Commander. Managed hosting keeps the deployment fast while preserving the control serious organizations expect.
Run communication like it matters.
MIRQ gives communities and organizations a faster, more controllable way to chat, coordinate, stream, and grow without handing everything to a generic platform.